If you’re running a non web app on the github api you can simply get the auth token for it (if you have configured in your account under applications of course) by running the following curl command.

If you encounter an too many open files exception you usually edit /etc/security/limits.conf and increase the value. But on Ubuntu (10.04 LTS at least) this is ignored!

Building an admin interface for your rails application using activeadmin goes quick and easy. Some more work is required if you want to integrate with CanCan.

If you run into an error while trying to compile the py-cairo port complaining it can’t find the python headers, you need to rebuild your python port with pth support disabled.

To mount an iso image under FreeBSD just follow these steps.

To get wine (which is a 32 bit application) running on a 64 bit FreeBSD installation you have 2 options:

1. Get the wine-fbsd64 packages from mediafire.
2. Build it manually.

Using the krumo library debugging sugarcrm becomes a lot easier.

If you are not able to get access to a sugarcrm installation you can reset the admin password directly via the sql interface.

Since some time it seems to be somewhat impossible to install the ruby-debug gem into your rails app. The error message will most likely look similar to this one:

When using Linux it is often helpful to use the following command if an application crashes:

If you’re using Drupal 7 and Organic Groups (2.x) you probably have the OG extras module enabled.

The documentation to enable the “create content” links for your organic group nodes is sparse. Therefore a short howto: